13 Facts About Dan Gilroy

Daniel Christopher Gilroy was born on June 24,1959 and is an American screenwriter and film director.

Dan Gilroy is best known for writing and directing Nightcrawler, for which he won Best Screenplay at the 30th Independent Spirit Awards, and was nominated for Best Original Screenplay at the 87th Academy Awards.

Dan Gilroy was born on June 24,1959, in Santa Monica, California.

Dan Gilroy is the son of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Frank D Gilroy, and sculptor and writer Ruth Dorothy Gaydos.

Dan Gilroy's brother, Tony Gilroy, is a screenwriter and director, and his fraternal twin brother, John Gilroy, is a film editor.

Dan Gilroy remembered that as a boy, seeing his father work and write at home full-time simplified the intricacies of becoming a writer.

Dan Gilroy began his screenwriting career by co-writing the science fiction thriller Freejack with Steven Pressfield and Ronald Shusett, directed by Geoff Murphy and based on the novel Immortality, Inc by Robert Sheckley.

Dan Gilroy co-wrote with his brother Tony Gilroy the script for The Bourne Legacy, which was edited by his fraternal twin brother, John Gilroy.

Dan Gilroy made his directorial debut with the thriller Nightcrawler, which starred Jake Gyllenhaal, Rene Russo, and Riz Ahmed.

Dan Gilroy wrote the script, which he conceived in 1988 after reading the photo-book Naked City, a collection of photographs taken by American photographer Weegee of 1940s New York City residents at night.

At the Independent Spirit Awards, Dan Gilroy closed his acceptance speech by lamenting the proliferation of superhero films in Hollywood.

The script had started as a spec, whose titular role he wrote specifically for Washington; Dan Gilroy has said that he would not have made the film had Washington declined to take over the role.

Dan Gilroy was hired by Tim Burton to re-write Wesley Strick's Superman Lives script, making it more budget conscious and expanding the psychology for the final shooting drafts before it was cancelled by WB.